February 2025 Mini-Seminar Event

Confirming your Family History Research with DNA
& Safeguard "My Legacy"

with
Kerry Farmer
Confirming your Family History Research with DNA
How can we be sure that our family trees are correct?
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​Kerry Farmer will guide you through the process of unlocking the truth of your family history using DNA tests.

Kerry, will demonstrate how to verify family trees, group ancestors, find missing relatives, and identify which parts of your DNA were inherited from which ancestors.
Safeguard, "My Legacy"
Learn how to digitize and safeguard your family photos, documents, and research for future generations.

Kerry Farmer will showcase practical tools like scanners, AI, Zoom, and voice dictation to help you organize and preserve your family legacy.​

It includes photo and document scanning, AI, Zoom, Google photos, using voice dictation of diaries, creating a sort of offline websites that can be handed to the next generation on a USB stick, etc.

In other words, taking best advantage of what you have available.

Seminar Details

​Day:    Saturday

​Date:   8 February 2025

​Time:   1.00 pm to 4.00 pm

Location:  GCFHS Rooms
Bicentennial Building
833 Nerang-Southport Road
Nerang  Qld  4211

Seminar Price:
GCFHS Members $15.00
​Non-Members $20.00
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Kerry Farmer
Kerry Farmer, has been teaching family history classes since 1997. With degrees in both science and the arts, she is a member of the Education Committee of the Society of Australian Genealogists, and a regular speaker at conferences and other events. 

​Kerry is also the Director of Australian Studies for the National Institute for Genealogical Studies, developing their course series ‘Certificate in Genealogical Studies – Australian Records’.
Kerry authored DNA for Genealogists (4th edn, 2017), Arrivals in Australia from 1788 (2015) and together with Rosemary Kopittke wrote Which Genealogy Program? (3rd edn, 2012) – all published by Unlock the Past.

Media: BOOK - paperback, 140 pages
Author: K. Farmer
Year: 2015
ISBN: 9781921956218
Other: b&w & colour photos, glossary, appendixes, index
Publisher: Unlock the Past
This book introduces the history and records of migration to Australia from 1788.

https://kerryfarmer.info

Gold Coast Family History Society is organising a series of talks by well-known experts to help you with your research in 2025
All are open to both GCFHS members and the general public for a small fee, bookings will be essential as numbers will be limited.  Visit our Up Coming Events page to see a list of future events .